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Re: Open letter to Ian Collins

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On 05/27/12 09:36 PM, BartC wrote:
>
>
> "Ian Collins"<ian-news@hotmail.com>  wrote in message
> news:a2dhipF7faU1@mid.individual.net...
>> On 05/27/12 10:22 AM, jacob navia wrote:
>>> Hi Ian
>>>
>>> In the c++ newsgroup you asked me for an example of the ccl performance
>>> It was something with building a huge list, then sorting it, if I
>>> remember correctly...
>>>
>>> I have built this example code:
>>>
>>> #include<stdlib.h>
>>> #include "containers.h"
>>> #define N 10000000
>>> int main(void)
>>> {
>>>            List *L1;
>>>            size_t i,d;
>>>            long long sum=0,newSum=0;
>>>            Iterator *it;
>>>            int *pint;
>>
>> All good code should have at least one beer reference!
>>
>> It be a lot easier to see what is what if these were declared on first
>> use.
>
> As in, instead of reading a play which starts with a cast of characters,
> they should be introduced whenever they first appear?
>
> Suppose you're delving into a random scene, (or have an extract for use
> elsewhere), and want to be reminded who a character is, you have to start
> ploughing through from page one first until you encounter their first
> mention?

A function is more like a limerick than a play.

> And if you are editing the play, and the character's first appearance is
> edited out, or is moved somewhere where it's no longer the first appearance;
> how much work is it going to be to fix up declarations properly?

No a lot.

> Getting back to C, wouldn't macros and enumerations (and file-scope
> variables, external references, etc) also all benefit from being declared
> where they are first used? (And what sort of mess would that make of any
> program...).

I would make them longer, unlike declaring variables when they are 
needed makes them shorter.  Besides, how do you introduce a const other 
that where it is initialised?

> Anyway I thought  everyone used smart editors now, where you hover over a
> name or something, and it tells you everything about it.

Alas, Thunderbird lack that feature.

-- 
Ian Collins

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Open letter to Ian Collins jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-05-27 00:22 +0200
  Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Ike Naar <ike@sverige.freeshell.org> - 2012-05-26 22:36 +0000
    Re: Open letter to Ian Collins jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-05-27 01:13 +0200
      Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2012-05-26 16:53 -0700
    Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-05-26 16:41 -0700
      Re: Open letter to Ian Collins pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-05-26 22:43 -0400
  Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-05-26 15:41 -0700
    Re: Open letter to Ian Collins jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-05-27 01:14 +0200
  Re: Open letter to Ian Collins MelissA <melis@a.com> - 2012-05-27 00:52 +0200
  Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2012-05-26 20:40 -0500
    Re: Open letter to Ian Collins jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-05-27 09:32 +0200
      Re: Open letter to Ian Collins pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-05-27 07:18 -0400
  Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-27 14:24 +1200
    Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-05-27 10:36 +0100
      Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-27 22:33 +1200
        Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-05-27 12:25 +0100
          Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-28 07:17 +1200
      Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Ike Naar <ike@sverige.freeshell.org> - 2012-05-27 13:03 +0000
  Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-27 15:16 +1200
    Re: Open letter to Ian Collins jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-05-27 09:30 +0200
      Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-27 20:56 +1200
        Re: Open letter to Ian Collins jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-05-27 11:12 +0200
          Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-27 21:22 +1200
            Re: Open letter to Ian Collins pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-05-27 07:15 -0400
            Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-05-27 07:49 -0700
              Re: Open letter to Ian Collins pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-05-27 13:55 -0400
                Re: Open letter to Ian Collins jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-05-27 22:24 +0200
                Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-05-27 22:09 +0100
                Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-05-27 14:33 -0700
                Re: Open letter to Ian Collins pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-05-27 17:49 -0400
                Re: Open letter to Ian Collins pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-05-27 17:31 -0400
                Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Philip Lantz <prl@canterey.us> - 2012-05-28 01:38 -0700
                Re: Open letter to Ian Collins pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-05-28 08:18 -0400
        Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-05-27 15:46 +0100
        Open letter to Ian Collins pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-06-13 21:25 -0400
          Re: Open letter to Ian Collins pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-06-13 21:52 -0400
          Re: Open letter to Ian Collins jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-06-14 04:00 +0200
            Re: Open letter to Ian Collins pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-06-14 00:04 -0400
  Re: Open letter to Ian Collins jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-05-27 09:42 +0200
  Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-05-28 12:39 +0200
    Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-05-28 21:44 +0200
      Re: Open letter to Ian Collins jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-05-29 09:46 +0200
        Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-05-29 10:06 +0200
          Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-05-29 10:37 +0200
            Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-05-29 10:58 +0200
              Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "Joachim Schmitz" <nospam.jojo@schmitz-digital.de> - 2012-05-29 11:34 +0200
              Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-05-29 03:02 -0700
      Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-05-29 09:59 +0200
      Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-05-29 20:09 +0200
  Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "Sarah Wren" <swreb@ameritech.net> - 2012-05-29 01:40 -0600

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